The Ghost Next Door
10 best books like The Ghost Next Door (Wylly Folk St. John): The Ghosts of Stone Hollow, Ghosts, Being Dead, They Never Came Home, Verland: The Transformation, The Ghost Belonged to Me, The Ghosts, Jane-Emily, Twin Spell, A Candle in Her Room
| Author | Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
| ISBN | 0718823478 |
I am new to Zilpha Keatley Snyder with an odd, long name but see that she is award-winning through other novels. This 1974 one didn't need to be set in 1938 and doesn't feel like it is in 1938, thus I don't know the authoress' purpose but most of it felt relevant. A strong, sour exception was one teacher's attitude...
| Author | Noel Hynd |
| ISBN | 0786014865 |
hi! my name is Ghosts by Noel Hynd and i really, really want to be a movie! i am really cinematic! in fact, i am about an Academy award-winning actress! a diva! i'm also about the very scenic Nantucket Island! beautiful and atmospheric scenery - possibly to be had at a surprisingly low price for the producer...
| Author | Vivian Vande Velde |
| ISBN | 0152049126 |
Most of the stories in this book are straightforward and well-done ghost stories -- "The Ghost" is obvious but amusing, "Shadow Brother" and "For Love of Him" are creepy as advertised, and "October Chill" and "Being Dead" are touchingly sad. "Dancing with Majorie's Ghost" is silly, and not as interesting...
| Author | Lois Duncan |
| ISBN | 0440207800 |
Just because Lois Duncan’s They Never Came Home was written in the late 1960s (my Avon paper book edition published in 1969) doesn’t mean it should be as incredibly stupid and sexist as it is. This book is awful. I picked up this book somewhere, sometime during my travels and it’s sat on my book shelves...
Verland: The Transformation
| Author | B.E. Scully |
| ISBN | 1460907000 |
True crime writer Elle Bramasol is drawn into a macabre mystery when incarcerated Hollywood producer Eliot Kingman asks her to write a book about his case. As she delves deeper into Kingman's murder conviction, she discovers that he possesses a centuries old diary written by an elusive vampire named...
| Author | Richard Peck |
| ISBN | 0140386718 |
"More death! More, if you do not stop it. Others lost, like me in the black water. Save them!"When Alexander first sees the eerie glow in the dormer window of the barn, it sets his heart pounding. And when he ventures into the barn in the dark of night, his breath catches in his throat. Suddenly Blossom Culp's...
| Author | Antonia Barber |
| ISBN | 0671707140 |
When Lucy sat in the attic, she thought she heard the sound of voices calling...
That's when she started to believe the rumors in the village that the old house was haunted. But no ghosts appeared - until the day Lucy and her brother Jamie stood in the garden and watched two pale figures, a girl and a boy,...
| Author | Patricia Clapp |
| ISBN | 0688045928 |
Emily was a selfish, willful, hateful child who died before her thirteenth birthday. But that was a long time ago.
Jane is nine years old and an orphan when she and her young Aunt Louisa come to spend the summer at Jane’s grandmother’s house, a large, mysterious mansion in Massachusetts....
| Author | Janet Lunn |
| ISBN | 0440491770 |
Twin girls are drawn to an antique doll, and find themselves sucked into a mystery from the past. It's spooky, but not terrifying; just the right chill-factor for the intended age group. The book is a little slow-moving by today's standards. Still, the story is interesting, and the characters well drawn....
| Author | Ruth M. Arthur |
| ISBN | 0689703155 |
Melissa was sure it was the doll, Dido, who brought evil to the family, not once, but again and again. Three generations were haunted by the strange wooden doll. Each time Dido came to light there was disaster and tragedy. What could be done to overcome the power of the doll? This is a book about many things:...
The Wicked, Wicked Ladies in the Haunted House
Maureen Swanson is the scourge of the neighborhood. At age nine, she already has a reputation as a hard slapper, a loud laugher, a liar, and a stay-after-schooler. The other kids call her Stinky. So sometimes when Maureen passes the crumbling (and haunted?) Messerman mansion, she imagines that she...
| Author | William Sleator |
| ISBN | 0765352397 |
A dark awakening . . .
When her parents give her a gloomy old dollhouse for her birthday instead of the ten speed bike she's expecting, Vicky is disappointed. But she soon becomes fascinated by the small shadowy world and its inhabitants. The hours she spends playing with the dolls is a good way to escape...
| Author | Pamela Sykes |
| ISBN | 0671411349 |
Originally published in Britain as Come Back, Lucy.
The mirror looked ordinary. It had a heavy gold frame and leaned against the wall in the attic. But when Lucy first looked into the mirror, a strange thing happened. Another girl's face appeared beside hers, laughing. Whirling around in surprise...
| Author | Ruth Chew |
| ISBN | 0590098403 |
This may be the first Ruth Chew book I ever read. I think I got it some time between 2nd and 4th grade from one of those grade school book order sheets that were given out at my school from time to time.
My sister and I were both mildly obsessed with the witch books Ruth Chew wrote, me first because I was...
| Author | Betty Ren Wright |
| ISBN | 0590435981 |
Not all nightmares happen when you're asleep. . .
Jessica's nightmares begin as soon as she and her family move into her grandmother's isolated country house. Jessica is so afraid that she can hardly sleep. Her fears deepen as the ghostly young woman who haunts her dreams begins to appear--even...
Help! Wanted: Tales of On-the-Job Terror
| Author | Peter Giglio |
| ISBN | 0615536352 |
This was a good collection of short stories involving the work place. The stand-outs for me were as follows:
Unrest by Stephen Volk-4*. A unique vampire story.
This was my first Stephen Volk story and I will be looking for more.
Another Shift Change by David Dunwoody. A story...
| Author | Robert D. San Souci |
| ISBN | 0812626885 |
This illustrated collection by the author of Short and Shivery: Thirty Chilling Tales includes ghost tales, “jump” stories, dark fantasy, and science fiction, all set in contemporary situations that will seem hauntingly familiar to young readers. Several of the stories draw on the rich heritage...
No One To Hear You Scream
| Author | Julia Madeleine |
| ISBN | 0980887429 |
In upstate New York, Brett and Pamela Jameson find the house of their dreams on twenty acres of land. Bucolic and serene, it is the answer to all of their prayers. But their dream soon turns into a nightmare when violent ex-gang member Rory Madden, the property's former owner returns, and will stop at nothing...
| Author | Mike Oliveri |
| ISBN | 0984880046 |
When tourists are murdered in a resort town in the northern mountain range of Minnesota, FBI Special Agent Angela Wallace is called in to investigate. But what she finds tests her training and sanity, for what she discovers should not exist. Winter Kill is the first book in the ongoing werewolf noir series,...
| Author | Joan Lowery Nixon |
| ISBN | 0152050302 |
When I saw this book it kind of reminded me of R.L. Stine or Mary Downing Hahn so I thought I would like this. But, after reading the first awkwardly worded paragraph, what came next was 149 pages of pure boredom. Four teenagers are trapped in a stranger's house during a flood and what was suppose to be a suspenseful...
